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Courtesy of Martin Strel, Mediterranean Sea. “Jane Mulderrig was our guest at our Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays in Montenegro. She recently completed an Ice Mile in 31:26 in 2.73°C water in the Harthill Reservoir near Sheffield, UK.” Copyright © 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of Martin Strel, Mediterranean Sea. Strel Swimming Adventure Holidays is planning swimming holidays in Croatia, Montenegro, Greece, Turkey, Slovenia and Arizona (USA). “Our season starts in mid-May and finishes at the end of October. We are also introducing two new trips this year in Croatia and Greece.” Swim the Elaphiti Islands in Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Pilar Geijo, the four-time FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix champion from Buenos Aires, will swim in the Maratón Acuática Internacional Santa Fe-Coronda for the seventh time in her career. “After winning the Maratona del Golfo Capri-Napoli in September, I went on three weeks of vacation as I do
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Courtesy of Ned Denison, Cork, Ireland. Eilís Burns is a renowned swimming coach in Sandycove, Ireland. Among her many achievements as an athlete, she is an Irish Masters Swim record holder, the coach of Cork Masters, winner of the seven Hogs 5 km open water events, and played six years on the Irish National water
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Courtesy of Lynn Kubasek, Laguna Beach, California. After coordinator Lynn Kubasek participated in the mixed 50-59 year relay As Seen On The Internetz across the Catalina Channel from the mainland to Santa Catalina Island [see below], she had surgery to remove melanoma skin cancer. “Two of my team members had gone through melanoma, so I
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Courtesy of A Lotus Rises, Loch Lomond, Scotland. A comprehensive interview of Chris Sifleet is posted here. Copyright © 2008 – 2016 by World Open Water Swimming Association
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Among the age group races at the 2017 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships, the 10 km marathon swim was a qualification swim for the Australian national open water swimming team. The marathon swim results from the races on Brighton Beach in Adelaide are below: Top 10 Men 10 km
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Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States or about ten deaths per day. About one in five people who die from drowning are children 14 and younger. For every
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Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California. Sherry Brooks compiled the results of the top swimmers at the Southern Pacific Masters Swimming 2016 Open Water Series that includes 5 independent events. Christie Ciraulo of UCLA Masters and Stephen Sponagle of NOVA Masters were the high point winners for the 2016 season. 40-44 Female 1st: Jennifer O’Keefe
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